Missing the point? Management education and entrepreneurship

Adcroft, Andy; Willis, Robert; Dhaliwal, Spinder

doi:10.1108/00251740410518958

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“…Although almost 70 years have passed since these courses were first offered, entrepreneurship as an academic subject is still in an early phase of development (Finkle et al, 2009) since there is, as yet, no standard structure or consensus on best practices for entrepreneurial business education (Fiet, 2000a, b;Brockhaus et al, 2001;Solomon, 2007). Authors still disagree about how to teach students to become entrepreneurs (Sexton and Upton, 1987;Hynes, 1996;Adcroft et al, 2004;Matlay and Carey, 2007;Fayolle, 2013;Abou-Warda, 2016). However, a respectable number of studies have found empirically robust proof that students can acquire entrepreneurial skills (e.g.…”

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Entrepreneurship education and training as facilitators of regional development

Galvão

Ferreira

Marques

2017

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to provide insights of a systematic literature review (SLR) of the entrepreneurship education and training as facilitators of regional development. Current and future trends in the field are identified. Design/methodology/approach -The paper offers an SLR on the entrepreneurship education and training and advances through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis comprising the period 1973-2016. To collect data, only articles published in scientific journals were used in the SCOPUS database. Findings -The results highlight that both training and entrepreneurship education can be a strong strategic tool for regional development, and that it is important for entities such as academia, government and business to cooperate towards the same goal in order to strengthen the entrepreneurial intention of society. Findings reveal three clusters as trends of literature: entrepreneurial universities, entrepreneurial spirit and process of business creation. Originality/value -This paper contributes to fill the gap in terms of SLR on the importance of entrepreneurship education and training for regional development conducted by a bibliometric analysis.

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Section: Education and Training For Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Entrepreneurship education and training as facilitators of regional development

Galvão

Ferreira

Marques

2017

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“…However, a growing body of research and opinion on the value of entrepreneurial education is emerging (e.g. Gibb, 2002;Matlay and Mitra, 2002;Adcroft, Willis and Dhaliwal, 2004) that cautions against entrepreneurship education being treated as just another additional teaching area in business schools.…”

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A contemporary approach to entrepreneurship education

Jones

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2004

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Entrepreneurial education is the process of providing individuals with the ability to recognise commercial opportunities and the insight, self‐esteem, knowledge and skills to act on them. It includes instruction in opportunity recognition, commercialising a concept, marshalling resources in the face of risk, and initiating a business venture. It also includes instruction in traditional business disciplines such as management, marketing, information systems and finance. The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and introduction of a new programme in entrepreneurship at the University of Tasmania. Within this programme the process and responsibility of learning has largely been reversed through the process of student centred learning. This method of learning represents a challenging departure from traditional mainstream teaching practices. In considering the benefits achievable from this teaching method, this paper also considers the difficulties in transferring increased responsibility to students to manage their futures.

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“…This has led to an ongoing debate in the entrepreneurship academy about whether individuals can be taught entrepreneurship. Adcroft et al (2004) argue that entrepreneurs cannot be manufactured but only recognised. This suggests that entrepreneurship cannot be taught.…”

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Students’ Perception of the Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education at a South African University

Fatoki¹,

Oni²

2014

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The objective of the study was to investigate the perception of university students that have done entrepreneurship about the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. The study adopted a quantitative research approach with a descriptive design. The study focused on the final year students (undergraduate level) in the Department of Business Management at a selected University located in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Data was collected through the use of self-administered questionnaires in a survey. The results suggest that entrepreneurship education is effective with respect to certain outcomes and ineffective in some areas. Entrepreneurship education encourages students to take on entrepreneurship as a career andgives students the skills needed to be entrepreneurial. However, entrepreneurship education does not seem effective in helping students to meet people with good business ideas or preparing students on how to access finance. Recommendations to improve the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education are suggested.

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Missing the point? Management education and entrepreneurship

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Entrepreneurship education and training as facilitators of regional development

Entrepreneurship education and training as facilitators of regional development

A contemporary approach to entrepreneurship education

Students’ Perception of the Effectiveness of Entrepreneurship Education at a South African University

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